Pirate Bay Adds Live Streaming of its Catalogue of Torrents

Those still pirating things the old fashioned way via The Pirate Bay and its numerous proxies have a new toy to play with today, thanks to the torrenting lynchpin adding support for in-browser streaming of its vast amount of media.

It's operated via the Torrents Time plugin, a browser tool that works in much the same way as the popular desktop media-stealer Popcorn Time. A new "Stream It!" button has been added to the usual list of download links on the Bay, with the feature tagged as a beta to make it seem even more exciting.

Torrent Time isn't just doing this for the Pirate Bay, though; it's selling its tool as a solution to the thorny modern issue of monetising all potentially dodgy content. It explains its mission as: "Torrents Time as a monetization solution allows you to start nourishing a great relationship with your users where you profit, among other things, from subscriptions to VPN services, which is truly essential to your users. Your users on the other hand, can show their love and appreciation for everything you're doing for them by using these services which they need."

You need to be brave enough to download and install the executable first, mind, letting it put its own Torrents Time Media Player on your computer. [Torrents Time via The Verge]